Release: BeOS Max Edition

About BeOS Max Edition:
BeOS 5 PE Max Edition is Based on BeOS 5 PE with a number of drivers, add-ons, Athlon XP Patch , P4 Boot img , software. It includes new development tools from the OpenBeOS team Web site, but you will also be able to select the old tools. And contains only freeware and shareware demos. All code it contains is legal under the MIT, GPL, or LGPL licenses.

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In my opinion BeOS isn't a bad 'alternative o/s' and with this new release there's no excuse not to give it a try

Heh it is dead. Be Inc. was purchased by Palm a while back, and they decided to ditch BeOS, but thankfully the OpenBeOS team have taken the PE (Personal Edition .. free version basically ) and added a hack of a lot of drivers and fixes and released it.
PE was 50mb, this new version is 200mb+

Downloading it right now... Does it install just like the original PE edition? I mean in a 512 MB file in a Windows folder, which you had to start up with a bootable floppydisk. Or does it install just like Linux, like creating a partition(s) with a filesystem.

I finally managed to download the thing. Took me 4 times of trying (WinAce came with a CRC error, it turned out that my harddisk was full and it couldn't complete the whole package, but it did mark it as 'downloaded')

Its going to be superb :happy:
the old PE5 was excellent, i remember installing it and having IRC + web + mail + WebCam + TVCard + GeForce @ 1280x1024 32bps all working within 5 minutes, all this new package is, is the PE5 with a hell of a lot of new apps/fixes etc (MOZILLA! YEHAR!..ahem)
So it should be good